The Cannes Critics Week has selected 11 feature films, among them six first films and five second films. Ten short films will also be screened in official selection. Polish director Aleksandra Terpinska scores a slot in the Short Film Competition lineup with her The Best Fireworks Ever / Najpiękniejsze fajerwerki ever. The Critics Week, which runs from 18 to 26 May, continues its reputation as an edgy event running during the main Cannes programme.
The ACID programme screens The Scaffolding (Israel, Poland) directed by Matan Yair in its main lineup. The ACID programme this year also screens a special focus on Serbian film 19, 20 and 21 May thanks to a partnership with the Auteur Film Festival in Belgrade. Screening in this special programme is Requiem for Mrs J / Rekvijem za gospodju J, a Serbian/Bulgarian/Macedonian/Russian/French coproduction directed by Bojan Vuletić, which already scored a critical success when it screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale earlier this year. The ACID Serbian programme also includes the already much awarded Humidity, a Serbian/Dutch/Greek coproduction directed by Nikola Ljuca, which screened in the main competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Critics Week
Feature Films:
Sicilian Ghost Story (Italy, France, Switzerland) Opening Film- Out of Competition
Directed by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
Bloody Milk / Petit Paysan (France) Out of Competition
Directed by Hubert Charuel
A Violent Life / Une Vie Violente (France) Out of Competition
Directed by Thierry de Peretti
Ava (France)
Directed by Léa Mysius
La Familia (Venezeula, Chile, Norway)
Directed by Gustavo Rondòn Córdova
Gabriel And The Mountain (Brazil, France)
Directed by Feliipe Gamarano Barbosa
Makala (France)
Directed by Emmanuele Gras
Oh Lucy! (USA, Japan)
Directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi
Los Perros (Chile, France, Argentina, Portugal, Germany)
Directed by Marcela Said
Tehran Taboo (Germany, Austria)
Directed by Ali Soozandeh
Brigsby Bear (USA) Closing Film – Out of Competition
Directed by Dave McCary
Short films in Competition
Los Desheredados (Spain)
Directed by Laura Ferrés Moreno
Ela – Sketches On A Departure / Ela – Szkice na Pozegnanie (Germany)
Directed by Oliver Adam Kusio
Children Leave At Dawn / Les enfants partent à l’aube (France)
Directed by Manon Coubia
Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee Of The Month (Philippines,Singapore)
Directed by Carlo Francisco Manatad
Möbius (USA, Canada)
Directed by Sam Kuhn
The Best Fireworks Ever / Najpiękniejsze fajerwerki ever (Poland)
Directed by Aleksandra Terpinska
Real Gods Require Blood (UK)
Directed by Moin Hussain
Selva (Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile)
Directed by Sofia Quirós Ubeda
Tesla Lumière Mondiale (Canada)
Directed by Matthew Rankin
Exposure / Le Visage (France)
Directed by Salvatore Lista
Short Film Out of Competition
Bad Bunny / Coelho Mau (Portugal, France)
Directed by Carlos Conceição
Islands / Les Iles (France)
Directed by Yann Gonzalez
After School Knife Fight (France)
Directed by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
ACID Programme
L'Assemblée (France)
Directed by Mariana Otero
Before Summer Ends (France, Switzerland)
Directed by Maryam Goormaghtigh
Belinda (France)
Directed by Maria Dumor
The Starry Sky Above Me (France)
Directed by Ilan Klipper
Kiss and Cry (France)
Directed by Lila Pinell, Chloé Mahieu
Coby (France)
Directed by Christian Sonderegger
Last Laugh (Hong Kong, France)
Directed by Zhang Tao
Sans adieu (France)
Directed by Christophe Agou
Scaffolding (Israel, Poland)
Directed by Matan Yair
Produced by Green Productions and Film Produkcja
Supported by the Israeli Film Fund and the Polish Film Institute
Special Screening:
Pour le réconfort (France)
Directed by Vincent Macaigne
ACID TRIP #1 – Feature films
Requiem for Mrs J / Rekvijem za gospodju J. (Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia, France)
Directed by Bojan Vuletić
Produced by Serbia’s SEE Film Pro, Bulgaria’s Geopoly Film, Macedonia’s Skopje Film Studio
Supported by Film Center Serbia, the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Macedonian Film Fund and Eurimages
Sales: Soul Food
Humidity (Serbia, Netherlands, Greece)
Directed by Nikola Ljuca
Produced by Cinamon Production, Dart Film and Lemming Supported by Film Center Serbia and Hubert Bals Fund
ACID TRIP #1 – Short films
Dos patrias (Serbia, Cuba)
Directed by Kosta Ristić
Transition (Serbia)
Directed by Milica Tomović
Sortie de secours (Serbia)
Directed by Vladimir Tagić
A Handful of Stones (Serbia)
Directed by Stefan Ivancić
If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave (Serbia)
Directed by Marko Grba Singh
